Dr Ewan Jones has co-edited a special issue of the journal Essays in Romanticism, with David B. Ruderman and Julia S. Carlson, entitled ‘Romanticizing Historical Poetics’. https://online.liverpooluniversitypress.co.uk/toc/eir/25/1
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Fourth Annual Lecture of the Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership, 30 April 2018
The fourth Annual Lecture of the Cambridge AHRC Doctoral Training Partnership will be given by Professor Adriana Cavarero, Head of the Scientific Board of the Hannah Arendt Center for Political Studies at the University of Verona. Professor Cavarero will speak on ‘Political Phonospheres: Plurality and Crowds’. Time: 5.00pm, Monday 30 April 2018. Venue: 8 Mill Lane, […]
Continue ReadingHolly Corfield Carr talks about the poetry of caving on The Echo Chamber, BBC Radio 4, April 2018
PhD candidate Holly Corfield Carr will be discussing site-specific writing practices in caves on Radio 4’s The Echo Chamber. The programme was recorded on site in Goatchurch Cavern in the Mendips with poet Sean Borodale reading from his latest collection Asylum (Cape, 2018). It was broadcast on Sunday 22nd April at 4.30pm and is available […]
Continue ReadingBBC Student Critics’ Award with First Story and Cambridge University Launches – Deadline for Applications 25th May 2018
The BBC Student Critics’ Award with First Story and Cambridge University The Faculty of English is pleased to be part of the BBC Student Critics’ Award, an exciting new initiative from the BBC and partners Cambridge University and First Story, designed to celebrate the written word by encouraging students to read critically, foster skills in […]
Continue ReadingDr Jessica Berenbeim: co-editor of ‘Seals and Status: The Power of Objects’, published 30 April 2018
Dr Jessica Berenbeim’s new book is part of a collaboration with curators at the British Museum. It looks at the constitutive role of seals and sealing in hierarchies of social, institutional, and representational status, and also complements the Museum’s ongoing digitisation programme to widen access to this important collection. The book’s title is: Seals and […]
Continue ReadingDiscourses & Dialogues, Post-1750 Graduate Conference, Saturday 21 April 2018, Faculty of English
Literature is dialogue, as every scholar since Bakhtin knows. Yet, for most our work, students of literature keep trudging on safely within our own periods, genres, styles, materials, ideals, and presuppositions. This is of course, partly pragmatic: no one can be an expert in everything. But such considerations do not absolve us of the duty […]
Continue ReadingDr Sophie Seita has been invited to speak about New York Dada at CUNY with Mary Ann Caws and Thierry de Duve, April 2018
Dr Sophie Seita is part of a panel of experts on New York Dada at CUNY in New York. About the event: Marcel Duchamp, The Blind Man, and New York Dada: Institutional Critique and Editorial Practices Tue, Apr 24, 2018, 06:30 PM – 08:00 PM Join Mary Ann Caws, Thierry de Duve, David Joselit, Sophie […]
Continue ReadingChristina Rossetti Reading: Monday 30 April, 9pm, St John’s College Chapel
CHRISTINA ROSSETTI READING: MONDAY 30th APRIL, 9pm, ST JOHN’S COLLEGE CHAPEL To mark her commemoration in the Calendar of the Church of England (though a few days after the date of the commemoration itself), a reading of poems by Christina Rossetti will be held at St John’s College Chapel. The readings will begin at 9pm […]
Continue ReadingClare Jones shortlisted for the Keats-Shelley Prize 2018
Clare Jones, a candidate for an MPhil in 18th Century and Romantic Studies, has been shortlisted for the Keats-Shelley Prize awarded by the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association. http://www.keats-shelley.co.uk/the-keats-shelley-prizes/the-keats-shelley-prize/keats-shelley-prize-2018
Continue ReadingPayton Danner awarded a Fulbright scholarship, 2018-2019
Payton Danner, a candidate for an MPhil in Modern and Contemporary Literature, has won a Fulbright scholarship. Fully funded and selected by the U.S. Department of State and Austrian Fulbright Commission, Payton Danner will work in Vienna as a guest researcher at the Institut für Germanistik of the University of Vienna, along with teaching English […]
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